
A breakdown of the search queries made by children through 2009 reveals an unsurprising fascination with sex and porn, although some might be surprised to see “porn” ranking 4th for children aged 7 and under…
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Top Asian micro-blogging service Plurk has apparently been subject to brazen plagiarism by Microsoft China, in a case which raises unsettling questions about the business ethics of both Microsoft and its Chinese developers.
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Those who frequently make or read comments on Sankaku Complex may be interested to learn of two new additions to the site’s commenting functionality, in the form of comment editing and deletion, and an expansion of the comment rating system to include comprehensive rankings and statistics.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Nov 28, 2009 22:43 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bizarre, Exhibitionism, Guro, Internet, Police, Sites, Suicide, Video Gallery

A girl has leapt to her death live on video streaming site Stickam, disappearing off her balcony and into the night sky in a broadcast which later showed police arriving and exchanging off-colour remarks…
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Police have expressed concern after a pair of young girls trapped down a dangerous storm drain used their phones to update their Facebook profiles rather than call for assistance.
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Top Japanese cat video sharing site NicoNico Douga has launched a live video broadcast service (“nama housou”), and unsurprisingly exhibitionists and voyeurs have flocked to the service, with predictable consequences.
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Barbarian excluding eroge maker Minori is seemingly not content with excluding non-Japanese visitors from its site in retaliation for being forced into extremes of censorship by its own puritanical ratings body; the risible message on their site claims to be “defending our culture”, but in comments to prying Japanese media their CEO provides another excuse entirely, claiming they are protecting foreigners from making criminals of themselves by visiting their site.
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The ill founded notion that by excluding foreign fans the Japanese eroge industry can somehow cut itself off from the world, and that in doing this their own industry and politicians will be somehow be discouraged from banning their works seems to be spreading; now we hear that two additional sites have joined eroge developer Minori in token displays of xenophobia.
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The recent decision by Japanese eroge studio Minori to close off its site to the outside world under the pretense of “defending our culture” has been clarified with a fuller explanation, which can be read below:
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Visual novel production company Minori, noted for producing hits such as Ef, Wind and Eden, has responded to the reprehensible decision by Japanese politicians and eroge publishers to ban “rape” eroge by issuing an indiscriminate and nonsensical ban of its own: they have banned all non-Japanese IPs from viewing their site.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jun 24, 2009 11:24 JST
- Tags: Aichi, Bizarre, Crime, Nara, Pets, Prostitution, Schoolgirls, Sites, Slavery

A trio of men who traded homeless schoolgirls online in a “sex relay”, with the girls being kept for sex, have been arrested.
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